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GitHub Issues Review

Review of GitHub Issues powered by the Slant community.

Everyone knows and has at least once used GitHub. It is the largest code host on the planet and has over 21.4 million and many users. It is unarguably the most widely used tool by developers worldwide.

Pros

Pro

Nice and usable UI

GitHub's UI is clean and intuitive. Each view is designed to not fill the screen with useless information.

For example, the repository view displays only the most crucial data about that repo - on the top it displays the number of commits, branches, releases and contributors. When clicked, each of them will take the user to a page that displays more detailed information.

Pro

Large community

GitHub is the largest code host on the planet with over 21.4 million hosted repositories and many users. It's unarguably the largest VCS used by developers worldwide and as such, it has a vibrant community that follows it resulting in many guides and tutorials for new users. Even experienced developers can always find an answer to any question they may have.

Pro

Simplified team management tools

GitHub has easy and useful features to control teams, large and small alike. Team members can be given different powers on different projects, ranging from the ability to create them, to only being able to have read-only access.

Pro

Convenient continuous integration with Travis CI

GitHub can be integrated with Travis CI for code testing and it is free for free open-source projects.

Pro

Supports Two-Factor authentication

GitHub has added another layer of security to their user accounts. This layer comes in the form of Two-Factor authentication. After it's enabled, GitHub delivers an authentication code by SMS, or by a free application for smartphones. After two-factor authentication is enabled, the authentication code is sent to the account owner's phone any time someone attempts to sign into their GitHub account. This means that only someone who has both the password and authentication code can sign into the account.

Pro

Anyone can fork

Any user can fork a project and submit a pull request. If accepted by the owner, the fork will be merged with the master branch.

Pro

Excellent native apps

GitHub has native apps for mobile (iOS and Android), Windows and Mac, which make code deployment easier and faster.

Cons

Con

Only public repositories are free

Unfortunately, compared to some other competitors, GitHub offers closed repositories only for premium users, and the price is not cheap at all.

Con

Issues are not systematically linked to a specific release

Con

Proprietary tool

Con

Only git repositories are fully supported

Github has full support only for Git, while it has some support for SVN. But it doesn't have any support for Mercurial though.